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The Diamond Ring Effect

Audio Recordings, Nature, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Eclipse, Polarity / April 10, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The sun of thought
the moon of feelings
so oft in conflict and discord
have become as one again

And each will travel richer for a while
with the giftings of a little of each other

The Color of Spring

Audio Recordings, Nature, Personal Growth / tagged Growth, Seasons, Spring / March 20, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower - Dylan Thomas

The color of spring
is not but grass and budding leaves

The color of spring
is that which wakes in us to greet it

The color spring
is our answering or calling from within

The color of spring

is there with eyes either open or closed

White Bluebonnet Blessing

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged First Nations, Hope, Native Americans, Peace, Wisdom / March 14, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A white buffalo calf is a big deal
and it is said White Buffalo Woman
brought the pipe of peace to the Sioux
Relating that legend Black Elk says...
This they tell,
and whether it happened so or not I do not know;
but if you think about it, you can see that it is true

In years to come they may speak of the spring
when the white bluebonnet
brought goodness back to Texas and the USA

Paradiso

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Faith, Heaven, Literature, Paradise, Religion, Searching / February 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Finally diving into Dante
skipping Inferno and Pergatorio
and straight through to Paradiso

Theory being that life will provide plenty
of coals to walk on with or without my help

Protestant at Catholic school
I've passed through the purgatory
of "No Questions" nuns teaching catechism

Heaven on the other hand
might still be a thing for earning
and worth the price of active search
with any maps and guides a blessing

There's Beatrice now, I'll follow her and let you know

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Tip-Toeing Into the Light

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry / tagged Fear, Growth, transformation / January 2, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Swedish poet Erik Romberg wrote a wish
That one might be translated into light and song

And yet the fear
always that little niggling fear
that we might lose something in the translation

Take Time to Heal

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Personal Growth / tagged Healing, New Year, Rest / January 1, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Take time to heal
Futures build on scar tissue
not open wounds

Wishing you a quiet reset and a happy new year

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After the Winter Solstice

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Personal Growth, Relationships / December 23, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Days grown longer now
may I grow daily larger too
to hold more of you

How He Read Himself Right Off The Ranch

Audio Recordings, Farm, Personal Growth, Ranch Life / tagged Education / December 10, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

He’d had some teachers growing up
that opened some gates that never closed

so every time he took a load of cows
to town he brought back a load of books
and the ranch
got smaller as the world got bigger

When a horse takes to chewing
corral rails (folks call it cribbing)
you pretty much have to shoot him
or let him go

And that’s how he got away

That Conversation

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships, Travel / tagged Communication, Connection / December 3, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Met in a resort hotel
across the peninsula from Athens
a retired ship owner who had just returned
from speaking at a conference in Delphi
on magic in the modern world

He talked about Delphi having been a library
where people gathered knowledge
before asking the oracle for the spirit side

He said Dorsey and I had to go to Delos and why

He said sometimes you have this conversation
and held his hands about hands-width apart
and sometimes you have this conversation
with hands as far apart as a fisherman’s lie

We had that conversation

This Thanksgiving I sat with John Lee
fellow poet fellow traveler on so many trails

We had that conversation - Hope you have many too

How Not To Be A Turkey On Thanksgiving Day

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Gratitude, Thanksgiving / November 23, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How do you get to Carnegie Hall
Practice Practice Practice

So sip each morn
and even on plentitude

And on the day of gratitude
show up less loud and crude

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Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
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